MAGIC WORDS
Great Scott
Meanings: Great Scott is an exclamation equivalent to Eureka!
Facts: To begin his show, professional magician The Great Scott (Scott
Green) tells his spectators that the magic words are Great Scott! "Throughout
the show, Scott has the audience yell the magic words to make his magic
happen."9
Greece
Mystique: "To almost all, is Greece a magic word. Her romantic history --
the legacies she has left us -- our early recollections, identifying with her
existence as a nation, all that is good and glorious; -- no wonder these things
should have shed a bright halo around her, -- and have made each breast
deeply sympathise with her in her unwonted struggle for freedom."10
Gweezy Yahmi
Facts: These exotic-sounding magic words actually condense the phrase
"go easy on me."
These words are featured in a video entitled "Adventures in Customer
Courtesy." "By touching their hands to their temples and saying the
magic words 'gweezy yahmi,' . . . customer service heroes invoke Kirby the
Leprechaun, a customer service magician."11
9 TheGreatScott.com (2005)
10 A. Bushman, A Love Story (1841)
11 The Entrepreneurship Institute of Canada